Thursday, 5 May 2011

Writing: Relish the Challenge

The May issue of ACCU's C Vu magazine will be hitting doormats any moment now. It contains the latest instalment in my Becoming a Better Programmer column. This one's called Relish the Challenge, and is an encouragement to stay motivated and challenged, to seek out new things, and to avoid becoming stale and staid as a developer.

I hope it's useful. For your stimulation, I've added the final questions from the article to the end of this blog post.

The PDF version of the magazine will be available for download by ACCU members shortly.

The cover I created for this month's issue is quite dense and busy. I wonder if that's any reflection on the designer?

Questions

Do you have projects that challenge you and stretch your skills?

Are there some ideas you’ve thought about for a while, but not started? Why not start a little side-project?

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About Me

Pete Goodliffe is a software developer, columnist, speaker, and author who never stays at the same place in the software food chain; he's worked in numerous languages on diverse projects.
He also has extensive experience in teaching and mentoring programmers, and writes the regular "Professionalism in Programming" column for ACCU's C Vu magazine (www.accu.org).
Pete's popular book, Code Craft, is a practical and entertaining investigation of the entire programming persuit. In about 600 pages. No mean feat! Pete enjoys writing excellent, bug-free code, so he can spend more time having fun with his kids. He has a passion for curry and doesn't wear shoes.